The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-05-25
KELLY ON THE SOUTH.
HE RECORDS HIS OBSERVATINS OF
PROGRESS IN THIS SECTION.

The Pennsylvania Congressman Predicts.a
Great Future for Us--He Calls it a 'New
South.''
Congressman Kelly, Of Pennsylvania,
who has just returned to Washington
from an extended tour through some Of
the Southern States, begun last March,
in an interview with a Star reporter,
records his observations of progress in
that section OF the country and predicts
a great future for the New South. Mr..
Kelly said: "In 1873, when I visited
Florida, the people there seemed to be
without hope or aspiration, but for the
last six or seven years the State has
taken position in the first ranks of the
New South. The people are energetic
and confident of the future. From Kes-
seninie City and Rock Ledge, I visited
farms on the lands reclaimed by the
Drainage Company on native alluvial
fields and after careful inspection, I
am prepared to say that Florida Is
destined to higher rank among the
agricultural States Of the Union. The
rich srl is being intelligently cultivated
with great profit. When left Florida
it was for seasrn of rest at Admission,
Ala, one of the new cities that has
grown up in the mineral regions. From
Admission I made excursions to other
towns in Alabama and in Georgia. After
months stay at Admission: turned my
steps toward Tennessee, passed ten days
most pleasantly at South Pittsburg,
which as Admission has Just done, Will
soon surprise the country by establish
ing itself as an industrial centre of large
proportions and great activity. Every
where throughout the mineral regions of
the South enterprise and prosperity are
moving hand in hand, nor is this pros
perity of the New South confined to its
mineral regions, though the poverty and
Gstless which characterized the poor
people Of the old South, still prevail to
a considerable extent. In her cotton
fields there is large boom of enterprise
and imdrovement which is rapidly cur
ing that. Those which have caught the
spirit of progress do not longer ploW
their fields with single mule plows.
They have learned the value of deep
ploTing and of following the chill plow
by heavy subsoil plow. They continue
to grow some cotton, but not open the
surface of exhausted fields, and they
diversity their crops. I am speaking
now Of the progressive agriculturists-
the representatives of the New South.
Instead of one crop Of cotton they have
fields of wheat, rye, clover and other
crops. And to save their old time
:sguano" bills, as they call bills for man
ufactured fertilizers, they turn under
grain crops and aid that with manure
from stock and well fed herds Of cattle.
"The great boom of the South is near
at hand, and it will not be confined to
the mineral regions Of that richest Sec
tion Of the country, but it will include
the agricultural regions as well"
In response to questions Judge Kelly
said that the evidences Of progressive
farming were not confined to any State
or county, but were visible In places all
over the State. In the vicinity of the
rapidly developing mineral regions, he
says, the farms are models Of good man
agement and thrift. Within four miles
of Admission, Ala, he saw some of the
finest herds of Jersey cattle and one of
the largest and cleanest dairies he had
ever inspected. It was built up and
owned by native Of Alabama. Near
Rome, Ga, he saw herds of cattle and
dairies that would do credit to Pennsyl-
yania or New Yolk.